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WATER scarcity is no longer a distant threat for Pakistan; it is a crisis already unfolding in the lives of millions. Pakistan ranks among the...
The collision between a Pakistan Navy and an Indian Navy warship in the North Arabian Sea on 15 Sep 26 merits to be seen as more than a navigational...
Sialkot has always been a city of enterprise, hard work and determination. Known internationally for its industries, exporters and skilled workforce,...
EVERY year, International Equal Pay Day reminds us of a principle that is simple in expression but profound in its implications: women and men should...
ON 12 June 2026, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reportedly declared that India would halt Indus River water flows to Pakistan over cross-border...
About ten years ago, I made a bet with a friend. He is one of the most reasonable men I know: generous in argument, intellectually honest, and, like...
IN July 2026, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told the Pakistan Economic Summit in Islamabad that the governance system the country has operated under...
IT will not be an overstatement that PPP ruled Sindh provincial government is opposing the idea of new administrative units with extra-ordinary...
SOMETHING seems to have become seriously entangled in the prevailing geopolitical order. The United States is Israel’s principal patron and...
PAKISTAN’S latest debate over administrative restructuring offers an opportunity far more consequential than simply creating new provinces or...
PAKISTAN is not suffering from a dearth of economic visions, growth strategies, development frameworks and institutional arrangements to achieve them...
IT was at my cousin’s office years ago that I met him. He was, according to my cousin, a star salesman, “Hear him Bob,” said my cousin, “He...
Says govt "fully aware of the burden placed on the public due to the increase in oil prices"; scheme to take effect in capital from 12am on Sept 15,...
WRITING in a contemporary newspaper, Nighat Dad, a digital rights advocate, offered a critical comment on the idea of a ‘smart city’: it is not...
Hebei Province is a remarkable part of China where ancient history, natural beauty, modern technology and higher education exist side by side. Located...
WHEN unprecedented, measurable outcomes of any system can be attributed to several external and internal complexities, a never-ending debate can be...
IN a country, where GDP growth has remained largely constrained between 3% and 4% for nearly a decade, the standing of trade organizations and...
Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs370.80 per litre while HSD will cost Rs398.04 per litre.
When a diplomatic dialogue is elevated from the level of foreign ministers to that of heads of state, it is rarely a matter of protocol alone. Such...
THE question of creating new provinces in Pakistan is becoming increasingly controversial over time. In Sindh, in particular, there is strong...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has taken advantage of the recent G20 Finance Ministers’ meeting to target China over the trade imbalance issue,...
Nation sees manufacturing strength evolve into intelligent ecosystems A splash of ketchup on the floor became an impromptu challenge for a Chinese...
ECONOMIC development is not a sole product of capital accumulation or technological advancement in a society rather fundamentally driven by the...
On the historic 60th anniversary of International Literacy Day, celebrated under the global theme “Literacy for people, the planet, and...
Until we name the root, every workshop, every “grand dialogue,” and every billion-rupee package will remain theatre. Balochistan is not suffering...
SHE was pathetically thin. The jeans she wore faded, cast offs maybe, the top cheap printed kurta also from an orphanage pool basket. She stood...
The decision of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif to restructure the Directorate General Public Relations (DGPR), introduce third-party...
SAY what you want, but I feel there’s something that’s slowly making an impact on India, one that is making the ruling party afraid, and that is...
IMAGINE a country built on mighty rivers and towering glaciers. That’s Pakistan. For years, water was our greatest gift. But today, that gift is...
On the morning of 06 September 1965, Pakistan did not wake to an ordinary sunrise. It woke to the rumble of armour, the shock of invasion and a...
There are moments in a nation’s history when the ordinary rhythm of life is suddenly replaced by an extraordinary test of courage. September 6, 1965...
It is nearing midnight September 9, (1965), location Chawinda, a village near Sialkot. Indian and Pakistani forces are locked in the biggest...
THE monsoon chapter of 2026 comes with the same headline for people across the third world countries. People are losing their homes and livelihoods as...
THE wise teacher looks at her young student, “And what did you do to provoke him to say that?” No, I’m not defending the boy or girl who said an...
UNDOUBTEDLY, dissolution of marriage is an unfortunate tragedy that continues to haunt isolated partners for years to come. However, the partner most...
SO many of us go through life wondering why God didn’t give us great looks, good height or more colour. We look at others who we think are prettier...
YEARS ago in school, I was once one of the shyest boys around. Girls teased me no end, and other boys bullied me till one day at the morning assembly,...
UNIVERSITY campuses are meant to be places where young people pursue education, build careers and broaden their intellectual horizons. Yet official...
Istanbul is a city unlike any other, where Europe meets Asia across the Bosphorus and where more than 1,500 years of history continue to live...
THE only certainty of life is death. And yet most of us continue living as if death will never visit us. We do not prepare ourselves for it and live...
MANY years ago, much before the invention of the cell phone, there were many moments you could have a break. Take travelling in a local train; it was...
China’s diplomatic relations with European states, such as the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Italy, began in the mid-1970s. The initial process...
TODAY’S consumers are more informed than ever. They want to know what they are eating and drinking, which ingredients products contain, where those...
MANY, many decades ago while on my grandmother’s knee I was told a story of how her son, my uncle, an air force pilot found his plane was on fire,...
he Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Agriculture and Food Security in his linkedin article has defended the federal government’s decision to import...
THE Supreme Court felt a few years ago that the two years imprisonment now meted out for causing death due to rash driving is ‘grossly...
RADIO Pakistan’s voice is no more confined to Medium Wave, Shortwave and FM. Listeners across the world now listen to its programmes and news...
ONCE when my wife had gone to New York to see our daughter, I was on my own, and quite often ordered food from hotels nearby. One morning it was spicy...
ART, an expression of human emotions and desires, manifests in many forms: music, painting, literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Anger, greed,...
Every few weeks, Artificial Intelligence seems to produce another headline. A new model. A larger investment. A faster processor. A company valued in...
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